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Very interesting site. All the talk about the Gateway fiasco, while entertaining, really just underscores one of the key issues we face. In a really collaborative, and useful world all of this stuff should be transparent...that is invisible..
I have email in my car (Toyota's MONET system in Japan)...I never use it. Not because it wouldnt be useful (anyone who knows me knows I live 60% of my life on email, and 39% on the web!), but because the process of getting it, and responding to it is such a pain in the neck, and it offers such limited utility that it isn't worth the trouble. Browsing the web while loking at a turkey cooking isn't exactly my idea of utility either.
The key to this whole idea is utility, and that comes from transparency. The Gateway epic is really just a good example of non-transparency. You couldn;t do the things you wanted because the implementation was always in the way
I was at the MS exhibit of the Auto PC in 1998..the guy doing the demo proudly showed me...